China Business Centre, PolyU
arranged One Belt One Road Strategy Seminar series and the last one named “走出邪惡軸心 - 黑紗背後的伊朗” on 3 Sep 2016. I only attended the previous one about Kazakhstan
through Professor Rafis Abazov (Visiting Professor, Al Farabi Kazakh National
University, Almaty Kazakhstan) on 11 Apr 2016. Mr. Hui (許百堅, Asso. Researcher, CBC, PolyU)
was MC and introduced the guest speakers of this talk.
Mr. Chan (陳立基, 凱順能源集團有限公司主席) was the first guest and he gave
opening speech. He said you would change
your mind when visited or worked in Iran.
Iran’s Doctor degree coverage was high and most come from USA. In Iran, 70% studied technology, mathematics
and computer science were female. Their
technology development was strong. He
also said Iran was the entire of One Belt One Road (一帶一路的切入點).
The first speaker was Ms. Cheung
(張倩儀) and her
topic named “Discuss Iran’s Cultural Confidence through Two Ancient Books”(從兩本古書淺談伊朗的文化自信). Iran had two fundamental elements in their
culture that one was two river region and the other was Zoroastrianism.
Firstly, she briefed the role of
Iran in Silk Road. Then she introduced
the religion of Iran which could trace to Persia (波斯). During ancient Iran, they believed Zoroastrianism
(瑣羅亞斯德教/祆教/拜火教). Iran believed the most important was
Integrity which was belong to Good God and the lying was belong to Bad God.
There had two kingdom named
Achaemenids (BC 330) (=中國的戰國時代) they attacked Greece and Sassanid (224-651) (=唐朝) they attacked Rome. However, the language of Persia was found
powerful in business at that time.
Finally, she concluded that Iran was a nation with great thinking (一個有思想的民族).
The second speaker was Ms. Cheung
(張翠容) and her
topic was “Walk through a Turbulent Iran” (走過動蕩的伊朗). She briefed some history and political events
of Iran such as renamed to be “Iran” in 1935. Revolution had happened in 1921
and 1979. After 1979, Iran was Theocracy
(神權國家) because
of Islam Revolution. In 2013, people
elected an open-minded leader in Conservatism rather than Radicals. They don’t
believed West revolution in other countries’ Color Revolution (顏色革命).
Then she shared some photos about
Iran’s lady. It was different what we
think as Islam country. They like many
different color.
Many club / bar for culture
people gathering and exchanging ideas.
The man was the open-minded
leader in Conservatism.
The last speaker was Dr. Thomas
Chan (陳文鴻) and his
topic entitled “A geo-strategic role in Iran through One Belt One Road
Strategic point of view” (從一帶一路戰略看伊朗的地緣戰略角色).
Firstly, he introduced the
background of the Silk Road and the empire of Sasanian (224-651) and Parthian
(247BC – 224AD). Then he briefed the
Great Game of the late 18th and early 19th Century which
was between Britain and Russia over the control of Asia that centered on
imperial defense, foreign & colonial policy.
Then he mentioned the politics in
Persia/Iran in the 20th Century.
In 1979, the religious revolution that overwhelming support in a
national referendum, Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic republic. However, oil had actually ruled the politics
of Iran in addition to its geostrategic importance which had also shifted
towards the political economy of oil on a global scale. Since Iran against USA after religious
revolution, it destroyed USA military arrangement. That’s why USA call Iran as the Evil
Nation.
Dr. Chan said Iran was not just a
nation, but a culture and civilization that could be the basis for greater
regional integration beyond religious sects and the nation-state concept. Moreover, Iran had the world’s 2nd
largest gas reserve after Russia that energy sector as the foundation of its coming
economic miracle. Moreover, Silk Road
Railway planned from Urumqi, China through Tashkent & Samrkand, Uzbekistan
to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan and then reached Tehran, Iran.
Q&A Session
One question asked by Minda that
any consequence for USA visa if visited Iran.
Mr. Chan said it had trouble for business and your application would be
held for longer time. Some participants
added that you had better got the USA visa first before visited Iran. Mr. Chan said visitor for tourism was better
but conference that related business would be monitored by USA seriously. He advised that using China’s bank for Iran’s
business.
Reference:
China Business Centre, PolyU - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cbc/tc/
20160411: PolyU Talk on New “Silk
Road” Regional Policies and Infrastructure Politics - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/04/polyu-talk-on-new-silk-road-regional.html
Other One Belt One Road Related activities:
20160526: CityUES Seminar on “Our
Relationship with the One Belt, One Road Initiative” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/05/cityues-seminar-on-our-relationship.html
20160126: CUHK Guest Lecture for
Quality Innovation in One Belt One Role and HKSQ Membership Drive - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2016/01/cuhk-guest-lecture-for-quality.html
20151007: CityU EngD Open Forum –
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/10/cityu-engd-open-forum-innovation-and.html
20150907: CityUES Seminar on “The
Rise of China, One Belt and One Road, the China Dream” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2015/09/cityues-seminar-on-rise-of-china-one.html
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